Every dollar and every life we spend fighting terrorists should be counted, if people must keep count. They end up being another kind of natural disaster.
And as for percentage of GDP or total amount being the yardstick (in disaster relief), I think the fact that we gave 40% of all aid speaks volumes. Some people (socialists) are never satisfied.
"Every dollar and every life we spend fighting terrorists should be counted, if people must keep count. They end up being another kind of natural disaster."
Another way we could look at this is how much do we spend on disaster relief altogether. I mean, let us add together the money that has been spent from the 9/11/01 disaster, the electrical outage in NYC and elsewhere, the hurricanes in the South, all of the floods, tornadoes, earthquakes etc that happen right here in our country together, I wonder how much that all adds up to and what percent of GDP that comes to. These other events are taken care of almost exclusively by USA with zero help from any other country. Why do our needs not count? Afterall, if other countries helped us more, we would have more available to assist other nations with than what we do now.